It’s pretty amazing when
you can combine your passion with your work. Who agree? As a youtuber and
blogger, I enjoy every phase of this journey. That doesn’t mean that I have
achieved everything on the lists, but at least I have been in the middle of the
journey. Be grateful with what you’re working on, yet don’t ever feel enough
that you always want to achieve more, right?

Anyway, talking about how
I enjoy living my passion, one of the things that I enjoy is staycation. And
this time, through this blog, I’m gonna share my first staycation in Jakarta,
that is a staycation in Holiday Inn
Express Jakarta Pluit Citygate, a three-star hotel in North Jakarta.

Let’s just jump to the
review session :D

THE BEDROOM

The first time I bumped to the bedroom I feel it’s the type of a
hotel bedroom that I like. It’s clean, everything is neat and the design is
quite minimalist. Anyway, I love their floor-to-ceilingwindow! There aren’t many 3-star hotels that offer this kind of
window, right? Anyway, the bellboy is quite responsive too! As soon as I
request something, they would come in around 5 minutes.

THE BATHROOM

The bathroom is quite
simple, actually. The toiletries are also standard but there is a sign that
says “You can always have more (of
toiletries)” that caught my
attention. I mean, they offer us to ask for more if we need it. Doesn’t that
sound like a nice offering? Anyway there is a flexible hanger that also caught
my attention. You can hang your clothes while taking a shower there.

THE BREAKFAST

The breakfast main menu
is quite ok; it was a standard breakfast but with good quality. I mean they all
taste nice. The fried rice, fried noodle, chicken, dory, and etc taste good.

However, the side menu is
not standard. They have very good croissants! And also, they have other kind of
side menu, for example bread pudding (although it was served lukewarm, which
made it tastes not that nice, in my opinion), and also some breads, and
cereals. The cereals aren’t just koko krunch or cornflakes, there are various
types of it which made us curious to try one by one.

Who are coffee lovers
here? You might love it that they have a grinding machine! It’s quite rare, a
3-star hotel usually will just provide you with instant coffee.

FACILITIES

They have a gym room that
is well-maintained, I can see how everything is neat and clean. And I love the
lighting as the sunlight can enter the room too. The equipment is quite
complete for a work out during a stay, like there are some dumbbells,
treadmills, and others.

Across the gym is a
laundry room. I was quite shocked that they have coin laundry machines. That
would ease the hotel occupants, right? And also, they have steam iron! I never
tried it before until my husband and I tried to browse about it and we managed
to do it, in the end!

ACCESS TO THE MALL

If you don’t know yet,
Holiday Inn Express Jakarta Pluit Citygate is actually located inside Emporium
Pluit Mall, so, of course, we can directly access the mall. It took 2 kind of
elevators but it’s quite easy, approximately 10 minutes to walk to the mall. And
by the way, they also have a partnership with the restaurants in the mall, so
you can just order their foods and the waiter would just come to the hotel, to
deliver your food. In short, it’s quite easy to get the food you want as
Emporium Pluit Mall is quite a complete mall

Anyway, that’s all the
review of Holiday In Express Jakarta Pluit
Citygate. I hope it could be a nice info for you who are looking for a
hotel to stay in Jakarta. Don’t forget to watch the video on my Youtube Channel! Thank you for reading!
See you on the next blog!